mental added the comment: It's nice to see the newcomer friendly tag being encouraged :thumbsup: I'm submitting a PR for a doc change (I'd appreciate a review :D). I've replaced any mention of getopt in the tutorial section with the argparse module. Additionally I have added several small examples of usage promoting its usability. Should the section recommend using other dedicated packages for parsing: fire, click, docopt? urllib.request does this for the requests package. ---------- nosy: +mental _______________________________________ Python tracker https://bugs.python.org/issue37726 _______________________________________

Guido van Rossum added the comment: New changeset 2491134029b195d3159a489e1803ee22a7839b41 by Guido van Rossum (mental) in branch 'master': bpo-37726: Prefer argparse over getopt in stdlib tutorial (#15052) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/2491134029b195d3159a489e1803ee22a78... ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker https://bugs.python.org/issue37726 _______________________________________

Change by miss-islington : ---------- pull_requests: +14817 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/15070 _______________________________________ Python tracker https://bugs.python.org/issue37726 _______________________________________

Guido van Rossum added the comment: New changeset 8990ac0ab0398bfb9c62031288030fe7c630c2c7 by Guido van Rossum (Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '3.7': bpo-37726: Prefer argparse over getopt in stdlib tutorial (GH-15052) (#15069) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/8990ac0ab0398bfb9c62031288030fe7c63... ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker https://bugs.python.org/issue37726 _______________________________________

Change by Guido van Rossum : ---------- versions: -Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker https://bugs.python.org/issue37726 _______________________________________